PROFILE OF SPEAKERS AND FACILITATORS

LOURDES S. ADRIANO is the lead agriculture sector economist, and the Advisor and concurrently Practice Leader of the Agriculture, Rural Development and Food Security Unit, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB). Her technical and work experiences have been in the fields of food security; agricultural, rural, and regional development; agricultural trade; and poverty reduction. She obtained her graduate education and postgraduate training in development economics and agricultural economics at the University of Cambridge, University of Sussex, and University of the Philippines. ROEHLANO BRIONES is a Senior Research Fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies where he specializes in agricultural policy. He is the lead expert in the drafting of the rules and procedures for the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR). He has served as a consultant for ADB, the World Bank, and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), where he has also assisted government agencies in various Asian countries, especially Thailand, Indonesia, and Viet Nam. He received his Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of the Philippines and did postdoctoral research at the WorldFish Center in Penang, Malaysia. NGIN CHHAY is the current Chairperson of the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board. He is also the Director of the Department of Rice Crops under the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) of the Royal Government of Cambodia since 2009. He also serves as Adviser to the MAFF Project Support Unit for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Deputy Director of the National Integrated Pest Management Program. He received his MBA degree from the University of Queensland in Australia in 2000 and his bachelors degree in agriculture from the Royal University of Agriculture in Phnom Penh in 1990, specializing in integrated pest management of rice crops. RAMON CLARETE is the Dean of the School of Economics of the University of the Philippines (UP), where he has been a faculty member since 1989. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario and Research Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. His research interests are economics of agriculture, international economics, development economics, and public economics. He received his A.B. degree in economics from Xavier University, completed all requirements for his M.A. in Economics at UP School of Economics, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Hawaii.

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SAMUEL DAINES is the President of the SRD Research Group based in Massachusetts and a consultant in food supplychain infrastructure and international trade. He has served as a visiting researcher at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and as a Fellow at the Stanford Food Research Institute. Before founding the SRD Research group, he was a Senior Economist in USAID Washington and an Associate at the Ford Foundation. He has worked in over 70 countries with government agencies, the World Bank, regional and national development banks, and private sector companies. He received a Doctorate in Law from Harvard University, specializing in international trade law and economics. VEDINI HARISHCHANDRA is a development economist with the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Division, Southeast Asia Department, Asian Development Bank. She has over 12 years of professional experience working with government and international development institutions on various projects, focusing on rural and private sector development, public policy, economic planning, strategy, and management. Before joining ADB, she worked with the World Bank in Washington, D.C. as an agricultural economist. She holds a master's degree and Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics. She is a Mason Fellow in Public Policy and Management from Harvard University. TAKAKO ITO assumed her current post as Minister-Counsellor of the Mission of Japan to ASEAN in May 2011. She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 1985. Her diplomatic postings include the Embassy of Japan in Canada (19881991), the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations (19972001), and the Embassy of Japan in Malaysia (20012003) and in Indonesia (20102011). She graduated from Sophia University in 1985 with a B.A. degree in international legal studies and earned her M.A. for international affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Canada in 1988. PRAMOD K. JOSHI is the Director for South Asia of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). He was formerly director of the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management and the National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research in India. His areas of research include food policy, market and institutional economics, and climate change resilient agriculture. He was recently named a Fellow of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (2012) for his lifetime contributions in agricultural economics and rural development. He holds a masters degree and Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics from the G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology in Pantnagar, India. PHAM QUANG MINH is Assistant Director/Head of Agriculture Industries and Natural Resource Division, Finance, Industry and Infrastructure Directorate, ASEAN Economic Community Department. His research interests are international and economic laws, agriculture development and integration, agriculture subsidies, and related topics. He received his M.A degree in international law from the National University of Ha Noi, Viet Nam and his Ph.D degree in international law from the same university.

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RONNIE S. NATAWIDJAJA is the Director of the Center for Agrifood Policy and Agribusiness Studies (CAPAS) and a senior lecturer of the Faculty of Agriculture at Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia. He also serves as Secretary General of the Indonesian Society of Agricultural Economics (PERHEPI). His areas of research include agrifood trade and policy, value chain analysis, market transformation, and institutional economics. He received his Ph.D. degree in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. TAHLIM SUDARYANTO is the Assistant Minister for International Cooperation in the Ministry of Agriculture, Republic of Indonesia. He has spent more than 13 years as the director of research, planning, and development agencies within the Ministry of Agriculture, including the Indonesian Center for Agricultural Socio-Economic and Policy Studies. Major areas of his research work are food policy, international trade, and rural economies. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in agricultural economics from Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia in 1978 and 1980, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. degree in economics at North Carolina State University in 1987. ERIC J. WAILES is Distinguished Professor and L. C. Carter Chair in Rice and Soybean Marketing at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness in the University of Arkansas. He conducts research on agricultural policy, trade, and marketing, with an emphasis on the rice sector. His team developed and maintains the Arkansas Global Rice Market and Riceflow models, which have been used to provide analyses for major international agencies, many national governments, and research institutes. He obtained his B.S. degree in agricultural economics at Cornell University in 1972, with specialization in tropical agriculture, and his Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics in 1983 at Michigan State University, with an emphasis on international policy and marketing.